After reading this short article, you will be able to properly configure your Solid State Drive ( SSD ) for better performance in Windows Operating system. If you have a new SSD in your hands and you are thinking about Installing Windows on it, make sure that your drive is aligned properly & within your BIOS the controller or SATA type is set to AHCI. While booting from Windows Disk and just before you select the Disk Press Shift + F10 and follow this guide . Below are some tips that you can use to gain some performance boost when using SSD in Windows.

Make Sure you are using your computer in AHCI mode.

Turn off Defragment service. ( Start menu –> type Service.msc)

Turn off indexing service ( SSD drives are fast enough and using indexing service is a waste of time )

Some online blogs /sites suggest turning off Superfetch. I would suggest not to turn it off. I found performance degradation while the superfetch service was tunred off. ( Though It’s your wish )

DO Not turn off write caching ( even if it’s not needed )

Make Sure Trim is working on your Windows system

To Check TRIM

Go to Start Menu

Type CMD

Right Click CMD

Run as Administrator

Now, on the Command Prompt

Type fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If the result you get says DisableDeleteNotify=0

Trim is Enabled

In the end, make sure you drivers & Windows is up to date. Run Windows update to check.